Here are this week's happenings:
- This Friday, March 17 at 3:00 is our third quarter awards program in the cafeteria. I just sent e-mails to those that will be receiving awards at that ceremony. You are welcome to attend, but don't be late as it's a very brief program and I wouldn't want you to miss your child's award.
- I will have third quarter Power School grades printed out by the end of the week. I still have a few items to put in before I get them ready to send home. I should have spent the weekend working on it, but that beautiful weather just didn't cooperate and keep me inside :)
- Tomorrow is our spelling test. Words were sent home last week. They are also on the sidebar of this blog. Some students may need a bit of extra studying. You can count that as your 10 minutes of "reading" if you study the spelling words.
- Speaking of reading--Khloe just reached the 100 book mark!! Yay!! I have a few others that are close behind her. Remember that your child has until May 17 to read 100 books for our challenge!
- Our Abel returned after spending the winter in Georgia. It was like he never left--one thing I love about this class this year is how welcoming they are of new students and welcoming back old friends. They were literally so excited to see Abel.
- Today we started Chapter 10 in math. This chapter deals with representing data using graphs. Today we worked with picture graphs. We will work with bar graphs and tally charts also throughout this chapter.
- Today we also started our new unit on Astronomy. We learned about the "atmosphere" vs. "outer space" and the meaning of the word astronomy and then concentrated on the sun during our reading. Ask your child what they remember about the sun.
- Thanks again for your continued support with our behavior charts. Last week, as I thought it over and noticed that if a child's card was turned yellow that oftentimes they just didn't care anymore. I decided to allow my students to change their cards back to green. In order for their card to be changed back to green (their choices merit the change) then their behavior changes would need to be consistent and significant.
- This week we will do a little bit of "St. Patrick's Day"/leprechaun activities--well probably just one on Wednesday, and be reading some fun St. Patrick's Day books when we have a few minutes between lessons or right before lunch. Help your child remember to wear green on Friday--we don't encourage "St. Patrick's Day" pinching, but the kids like to wear green on that day and feel left out if they forget.
- I will send home March Scholastic book orders this week. They will be due next Wednesday, March 22.
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